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The F.T.C. said that beginning on Dec. 1, bloggers who review products must disclose any connection with advertisers, including, in most cases, the receipt of free products… [NYT]
I’d like to disclose right now that my SelloutRank is disappointingly low. I sometimes receive review copies of books and albums (thank you) and get into advance screenings [...]

We’ve added free classifieds at: ultrabrown.com/classifieds
You can buy and sell stuff, post or find housing, jobs, gigs, volunteering and so on.
Ever since the halcyon days of desi blogging, we’ve joked about putting together a personals site called Sepia Destiny. Yes we can. We decided against a casual encounters section for now — surely that’s what [...]

For those of you more into books than any other strand of this site, I’ve just started blogging literature at vij.com …

… and microblogging books at twitter.com/manish_vij. Will not be restricting myself to South Asian lit. Do follow me there for book-specific and longer-form writing posted ~weekly.
The desi bits will be crossposted here, and Ultrabrown [...]

A gay and lesbian desi org apparently had no problem procuring a booth for the India Day festival in Fremont, CA. I always thought the metropolis of Stonewall would be more cosmopolitan than the city of sari shops.

Nicholas Schmidle, To Live or to Perish Forever: kicked out of Pakistan by Musharraf, which is its own kind of recommendation, Schmidle strikes back with an analysis of fundamentalism.
Sadanand Dhume, My Friend the Fanatic: travels through Indonesia with an Islamist (sensing a theme here).
Anne Cherian, A Good Indian Wife: pop fic, sari cover.
Pompousness [...]

Predictable discriminatory lameness from the FIA. Open your minds, bristly-moustached uncles. There will be a protest Sunday — how is that better than including card-carrying desis in the parade?
By the way, posting here may be slow til Wednesday. On the road for an arts and wedding weekend.
(thanks, Filmiholic)

Reminder: New York readers, come by the joint Ultrabrown + Sepia Mutiny meetup this Sunday at 5pm, Verlaine in LES, Manhattan. Good conversation, comfy leather couches, $5 martinis.
In the past the joint meetups have drawn around 50-70 people (albeit on a Saturday) with follow-on events around the corner. This time I’ve got my eye on [...]

As several of us will be in town for a wedding-shedding, come enjoy a joint Ultrabrown + Sepia Mutiny meetup Aug. 16. We’ll hold it at our usual spot, Verlaine in Lower East Side, the place with $5 lychee martinis and a comfy sitting area. From 5pm on. Mark your gCalendars!
Joint meetup, Sun Aug. 16, [...]

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Ultrabrown now has friendly tags for those of you addicted to your keyboards. For example:
ultrabrown.com/tag/australia for the ongoing race clashes. This one is a huge time saver when you’re trying to find that news post you vaguely remember. Tags with spaces work fine, e.g.: ultrabrown.com/tags/aravind adiga
ultrabrown.com/user/khoof for pearls of offbeat wisdom.
ultrabrown.com/news/19784 for the latest news [...]

When MTV Desi, Chi and K closed down, they were relaunched in a much more modest form as MTV Iggy, which focuses on diasporas, beginning with those from South and East Asia.
My good friend Samantha is the new Webmistress over there and invited us to guest blog for a month. The first Ultrabrown post just [...]

Come on take a little walk with me babyTell me, who do you love?
-George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Robert Louis Stevenson — maybe it was the ’stache

I’m looking to add a couple more bloggers to Ultrabrown. Please nominate some in-duh-widuals whose blogging you whole-heartedly love.

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Here’s the backstory. I originally began blogging [...]

A couple of weeks ago we upgraded the blog to allow posting via mobile phone. That experiment ended in sadness and unicorn tears.
First, the WordPress iPhone app has a nasty bug where after you pour your heart into a post for an hour, which on the iPhone’s runty virtual ‘keyboard’ translates into approximately 20 characters, [...]